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She recognizes that the students are subtracting the 2 from the 4 in the ones column. What should she do?

Stop and immediately point out the error.

School advisory councils are made up of what?

the principal and a balanced number of elected teachers, students, parents, and diverse community members.

Which of the following activities requires higher-level thinking skills?

Students design their own circuit boards to demonstrate the difference between series and parallel circuits.

Florida Consent Decree

ensures that all students with limited English proficiency must be identified and assessed, and details the procedures for the placements, monitoring, and exiting of students from the ESOL program.

A high-school algebra teacher wants to prepare her students to do their best on a year-end assessment. To accomplish this, she should

Present the test in a similar format

What is the difference between an accommodation and a modification?

Accommodations are changes to the way a child learns; modifications are changes to what they learn.

What document is used to identify English language learners when they initially enroll in a Florida school?

Home language survey.

What is deductive thinking ?

When students start with a generalized principle, then apply it to specific situations.

Which of the following would require deductive thinking?

Students are told how horizontal and vertical motions are independent of each other, and then predict how projectiles will travel when launched at various speeds from various heights.

When choosing computer software for the classroom it is important to select products

Provides immediate feedback.

What is inductive thinking?

Method of reasoning that requires students to take specific facts and use them to develop a general conclusion.

Which of the following types of assessment questions are divergent?

Essay questions.

What are divergent questions?

Questions that require critical thinking (multiple answers).

What are convergent questions?

One-answer questions.

When arranging a student-centered classroom, it is important that

student desks are arranged in the center of the room, facing each other for group work.

Students will generate a higher-quality answer for an essay question if

If the essay is prompt and comes with a rubric.

Students very often demonstrate academic success in a second language when

When they become successful in their own language

A teacher tells her class that she knows that they are prepared for a major exam, and that she expects them all to do very well. What is she using to improve test scores?

Self-fulfilling prophecy

Intrapersonal Skills

Self-reflect

Interpersonal skills

Works well with others

How can a teacher help students to be intrinsically motivated?

teach them to use self-praise.

What is a criterion reference test?

used to test mastery of specific benchmark standards. Tests such as the FCAT and PARCC are criterion-referenced tests.

What is a norm-referenced test?

Norm-referenced tests are used to compare a group of students to a larger group's performance.

What is a cognitive objective?

A cognitive objective has three main components: the condition, the behavior, and the degree.

An English language learner joins the classroom mid-year. She appears to speak fluent English and participates well in class, yet struggles academically in reading and science. When questioned, the teacher learns that the student has only lived in America for two years. The student's academic struggles are likely the result of

not having mastered cognitive academic language proficiency due to the length of time she has been speaking English.

The input hypothesis model developed by Steven Krashen would suggest that English language learners would benefit from

being given information that is just slightly above their ability level in the second language.

The No Child Left Behind Act states that

student whose first language is not English may only be tested in English.

Student test performance reflects

student's understanding of the topic and the quality of instruction.

A student comes to school and says that her report is done but that she is out of ink on her home printer. She asks the teacher if she can email the assignment to school and have the teacher print it out. The teacher should

Be cautious as to it can contain viruses

Prior to teaching a unit on bacteria and viruses, a teacher has students evaluate a list of content-area statements as being true or false. After the lesson is complete, the students reevaluate the statements. What was the purpose of giving the assignment before the lesson if it was also to be completed afterwards?

The teacher was using an anticipation chart to increase student interest and focus the instruction.

Drill and practice is primarily used to

practice previously learned skills.

A teacher is arrested for domestic violence, but does not report the incident because it was unfounded. The teacher

will be terminated as soon as the State of Florida learns of the offense.

A teacher notices that a student has lost her appetite and has difficulty walking or sitting. She also seems to be behaving in a sexually sophisticated manner. The teacher should

immediately contact the Florida Abuse Hotline.

Who is responsible for implementing the school improvement plan?

The principal and staff

What does the school advisory council do?

The school advisory council designs the school improvement plan, but does not implement it.

What type of question elicits a written, pictorial, or graphic response from a student?

Constructed response

An intermediate science teacher wants to develop a lesson that would teach her students to categorize items like a scientist while appealing to students with a naturalistic intelligence. Which plan would best meet her objective?

Plan an outdoor trip and have students gather items, then work in groups to sort them based on their categories

Learning communities provide educators an opportunity to

meet with other educators to discuss and study more effective instructional practices.